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In his introduction to Texas Literature: A Case Study, Dagoberto Gilb writes: "In the wide and large frame of American literature, publications from and set in the East Coast are tacitly accepted as national." Literary works from places other than the East Coast, he argues --- from the South, for example, or the Pacific Northwest, or the state of Texas --- are generally classified as regional. But Texas, Gilb points out, is different. "If for no other reason than that it lasted ten years as a country all its own," he writes," `region' does not pertain to it." Texas is in a category all its own.
The stories, poems, essays, images, and historical documents of this collection are but a sampling of the rich and diverse writings from the state Molly Ivins once described as the "least likely to become a replica of everyplace else." We invite you to enjoy this collection and hope it enriches your own perspective on the Lone Star state. As Gilb writes: "¡Que viva Texas! Onward and adelante!"
"This case study is an engaging introduction to Texas literature --- of interest both to native Texans ... and to all the less fortunate folks who were born somewhere else." --- Cheryl Clements, Blinn College-Bryan Campus
"I am so pleased to see a collection of Texas voices and images that is broad in its scope of years, heritage, and genre, and in its attention to the diversity that is Texas." --- Sandra Coker, Westlake High School, Austin, TX
